AT&T added that transitioning from copper will save an estimated 300 million kilowatt-hours annually
Yepp, one of the reasons being that POTS will work even during power outages, as long as the central switches are powered. Your VoIP will be down if your house has no power. It probably is more efficient, but that "saving" is also simply shifting some of the power usage to consumers.
The market is a wet dream of manufacturers, of course. Already knowing that for all the forseable future however much you can produce will be sold at very good prices - amazing.
Until the house of cards comes down. Most of the stuff ordered is, as someone put well into a meme, money that doesn't yet exist buying chips that don't yet exist for data centers that have not yet been built.
That is highly speculative.
They were playing nice until someone started bombing them.
In which alternate reality?
Iran is not "a", but "the" supporter and financier behind Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and a bunch of other militias and trouble sources in the region. So no, they were absolutely not playing nice, even if you ignore all the atrocities inside Iran.
I could make the same claim about Trump's regime, too.
Yes, but Trump's will go in 3 years by itself. The IRGC regime will not.
"Cocaine back in coke." - why was it removed in the first place?
Not just not accurate but wrong.
That's like saying the price of the battery in an electric car is that car's price minus the price of a comparable ICE car. No, it isn't. There are more differences than just the battery.
And yes, of course they recoup their development costs. But that doesn't mean that the OP is right in this context.
Microsoft and Apple ensure that operating systems haven't got cheaper etc.
errr... Apple doesn't charge for its operating system. macOS literally doesn't have a price.
I can print to my Bambu printer locally by using LAN only or an SD card, not sure why you think I need their cloud to print at all.
Also https://orca-slicer.com/ is not offline, some kind of a fork of it is offline.
Completely disagree. 100% disagree. If I need something that my printer from Bambu cannot do I will get another printer. For what I need it though it is great and keeps me from *wasting* time. My time is what is important to me more than money.
I like their products. I just want printing without fuss and without having to learn every detail about leveling, etc. Their product works for me and I do not care about its openness, it is about as important for what I need it as my headphones being open sourced (not at all). So this product is for my use case, not for people who want to control every aspect of their printer and every software feature.
IF they decide to make it prohibitively expensive to operate their hardware, then I will go back to a less capable hardware kit.
Yes, but now you have it too complicated for 95% of the vibe coders. So they simply won't do it. Because skipping all of those steps still results in something that compiles.
They *should* be going back to managing their work flow with spreadsheets, like they used to.
They fuck up spreadsheets as well. A truckload of business-critical spreadsheets have errors in them that often go undetected for years.
It's hard enough to get actual developers to properly consider security. Not surprised at all that vibe coders don't.
Plus, of course, most of the training data is insecure to begin with.
But let them learn by fire that there's a reason actual programmers take time to ship a product, and it's not that the AI can type faster.
I got an Idea. How about locating and deleting data centers that host these things? Deleting them from existance.
In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin.
